4111111.11. 144 Notes of try eil about true Comfort from falle, ,fort; that did beget thy Comfort ; and what begets it that will nouritll: ir, and nothing elfe No,v then, if- thy Comfort.beT- tfúly fpiritual l, be from the Spirit :ofJefus Chriti:in thy hearr;._ then there is nothing that will nourilh chc comfort more then: jefus Chriít in thy heart ; And it makes thee therefore long- ing after more Communion with Jefl s-ChriiLtlypocriteshave comfort, but what doch nourish and maintain!. theiecomforr, outward things that they injoy the,'efteeme oo_the world, their gifts and parts, and inlargem ìtrs anaintaine their Com fort ; But now the Coniforts of the S;rincs are tuch as are maintained by higher principles : As you know the Scripture compares Joy toLight; now we know hi nature, there is a light that is maintain'd and fed by meane things ; as the light of aCandle ; But then there isnhe light of the Sun; Now :tiat light is of another nature, that's not fed by Ruch low and bafe things as the light of Cand13S are Now in Scripture the Joy. of tilt wicked is compared tcuthe light of a Candle ; But the ßrov. 18. Joy of the Saints is compared to the light of the Sun ; 7 -he righteous is as the Sun that fhineth more and more unto the per - fettday. Now if thou ñndcil-this, that the light that thou halt in/by-14,1e is maintain'd from principles that are above, from the Sun of righteoufneffe íl,ining into thy furely it is a right Comfort:, -_ And then thirdly, If thy Comfort be fuch: as doth rule all other Comforts in thy heart ;. l meane.the Cothforc in hope of the pardon of thy fin ; The Comforts of an hypocrite are fuch that though they are much af}eeted with joy, yet it is nor able to over - rule the naturall comfort they have,neither can it Bare out the corrupt Joy that was in their foules ; But now the Joy of the Saints, I fay, it is fuck as over-rulesAfturall Joy, and eates out- corrupt-and finfull Joy : As.the li§litidf the Sun, you know, it will put out the light of the Kirchin -ire, and darken the -light of the Candle So the light and heare of true Com- fort in the foule will eate out that carnali Joy that was before ; Confef. faith Auftin, How frocete is it to. want filch fweetneffes,. There= was a time that 'I thought I could not tell how in the world,,to be without the fweernefle of filch and-fuch lulls; 'Bum. ow, O how
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